Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started when Joe was approached by local officials about playing in the San Diego Open. Amateur Golfer Louis (middle 70s) decided to play. A Los Angeles Negro professional named Bill Spiller then applied to play in the tournament. Spiller qualified for the tournament with his golf (152 for two rounds), but not with his color. The P.G.A. disqualified him on a fancy technicality: he had not signed a "player agreement," a document that the P.G.A. proffers only to Caucasians...
...Professional Golfers Association cleared the way yesterday for Joe Louis to play in the San Diego Open Tournament tomorrow...
Detroit's Institute of Arts is one of the nation's biggest and best museums. Its Italian Renaissance building (of Vermont marble) covers a city block, and holds treasures ranging from an Assyrian bas-relief to a mural by Diego Rivera. The public's favorite painting is Pieter Bruegel the Elder's big, brash The Wedding Dance...
...sprawling mural cavalcades of Mexican history, Diego Rivera has painted at least four portraits of Conquistador Hernando Cortés, always as a handsome, broad-shouldered hero. Last week Rivera fans, examining his latest addition to the murals in Mexico City's National Palace, met a new character, a cross-eyed, hunch backed, bowlegged cretin. "It's Sancho Panza," was their immediate reaction...
...looks and acts rather like a smaller replica of his idol, Diego Rivera. He has the same froggish frame and features, a similar instinct for gregarious, bohemian living. In his pockets, he usually carries a pen, pencils, paintbrushes, adhesive tape, wadded-up notes, neckties, socks, toothpaste and a list of telephone numbers. Thus equipped, he is ready to go anywhere and have a fine time (he once said: "I was born to go traveling around the world on an ostrich, but that could only be done in the 19th Century, when men had imagination and women's arms were...